Some questions and wishes on the new W12

[Yulian]

Hello!
First of all, I would like to say that no matter what, I really love this DAW, ever since it was T7) And I am very grateful to Tracktion Software for making such an amazing free music production software!

I want to write here about some solutions in W12 Free, which seemed not very convenient for me personally, or about functions that I would really like to see in this great program.
Perhaps this will also be relevant for you, please write about it to see how many users think the same.
I will add to this list as I discover new ones.

1. When you change the length of an audio clip by holding the arrows on the edges ◄► and moving the mouse, listening to it is turned on and playback stops if it was previously started. Sometimes this is quite inconvenient. Can you please tell me if there is a way to disable this feature in the settings? I have not found such a switch .

2. In W11, when editing a MIDI clip, selected notes were highlighted with a red stroke. But W12 doesn't have that. This makes it difficult to visually locate highlighted notes, especially when viewed at a large scale. I thought I could set this up in the new Color scheme Editor Window (it's a really cool feature that gives me the flexibility to customize my UI look), but I couldn't fix it there. Perhaps there is another way to do this?

2.1 Also, please explain to me how the Highlight current key in MIDI background function in Settings > Appearance > MIDI Note Color works. I can't see what changes when I turn it on or change the In/Out-of-key scale note .

3. I would like to be able to see how many bars or seconds are in the marker or loop region, as in many programs that use the timeline. Sometimes this is a necessary and useful feature, but unfortunately I did not find it in W12 (also in previous versions). It would be really cool if it was added in the update.

4. By default some audio clips (including all renders it seems) have auto pitch and auto tempo enabled by default. Every time you alter the clip after that waveform seems to re-render the clip. I personally find this feature really annoying. I manually alter pitch and tempo a lot as necessary and hardly ever use auto-(x). It wastes a lot of time if you are render a lot though. Hopefully will be changed in a future update.

Sorry if these questions have already been raised in other topics. If so, please give me a link.
That's all for now, thank you very much for your attention!

[dysjoint]

1. By default some audio clips (including all renders it seems) have auto pitch and auto tempo enabled by default. Every time you alter the clip after that waveform seems to re-render the clip. You can go I to properties and disable both. I personally find this feature really annoying. I manually alter pitch and tempo a lot as necessary and hardly ever use auto-(x). This may fix the issue. It wastes a lot of time if you are render g a lot though. Hopefully will be changed in a future update.

[dysjoint]

Haven't figured out that notes in key myself yet. Sometimes the midi editor doesn't even highlight the accidentals correctly and i have to scan across visually to place the note correctly. I am probably missing something as well

[Yulian]

I personally find this feature really annoying. I manually alter pitch and tempo a lot as necessary and hardly ever use auto-(x). This may fix the issue. It wastes a lot of time if you are render g a lot though. Hopefully will be changed in a future update.

Thanks for the answer!) Exactly, here's another thing that sometimes annoys me too! I will add this to the list. I would really like to be able to manually tweak the behavior of such functions.

You can go I to properties and disable both...This may fix the issue

1. By default some audio clips (including all renders it seems) have auto pitch and auto tempo enabled by default. Every time you alter the clip after that waveform seems to re-render the clip. You can go I to properties and disable both.
But still this is not quite what I had in mind in the number "1".
This happens on a Win 7 computer regardless of whether Auto Tempo or Auto Pitch is enabled.
But on another computer with Win 10, this is not there ... maybe it is disabled in the settings there, but I did not find how to set it up.
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[Yulian]

Haven't figured out that notes in key myself yet. Sometimes the midi editor doesn't even highlight the accidentals correctly and i have to scan across visually to place the note correctly. I am probably missing something as well

Yes, it would be nice to have a manual on how it works.
Here's a GIF for comparison of what the selected notes looked like in W11 and in W12. Still, it is visually much more convenient to distinguish the selected notes when they are not only darkened, but also have a colored border.

[Peter Widdicombe]

On the in-key colors - I remember this from 11. You have to SELECT the notes (or ^a to select all) and THEN click on the last block (the mosaic) to get the configured colors for in- and out-of key.

Actually, I thought there was a third color, but seems to be only 2 now...

Actually there were 4; in- and out-of key chord, and in- and out-of-key scale? My music theory is a little lax, and not sure what the difference is. C-E-G with an added D might flag the D in the chord, but not as a scale note?

[Stuttaton]

On the in-key colors - I remember this from 11. You have to SELECT the notes (or ^a to select all) and THEN click on the last block (the mosaic) to get the configured colors for in- and out-of key.

Actually, I thought there was a third color, but seems to be only 2 now...

Actually there were 4; in- and out-of key chord, and in- and out-of-key scale? My music theory is a little lax, and not sure what the difference is. C-E-G with an added D might flag the D in the chord, but not as a scale note?

If you regularly use the four colour feature, it will be taken as default when you create new midi clips.